completely honest…Contamination Ocd Betterhelp… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy process to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four options three actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and then you wait for your counselor to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Contamination Ocd Betterhelp
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so